"Feelings Are Not Facts"

by: 4kedtongue

Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 14:09:27 PM EST

I'm sorry for what happened on Saturday.  I'm also sorry for the Sunday night texts, as well.  They were sent out of frustration.  They were inappropriate.  They were adolescent.  It was absolutely wrong for me to send them.

I could address every point of your email and recount all the times I've felt injured by you, but it would serve no purpose.  It would serve no purpose because any injury I've endured was unintended by you.  More to the point, my injuries have been self-inflicted.  I have tried to convince myself that friendship with you is possible.  It's not.  My desire to help you has many sources - most legitimate - but I have denied certain emotional reasons in the hope that altruism and the honest desire to see you free from your struggle would over-shadow my insane romantic desires.

I'm not _____.  I don't have an agenda based on how I picture MY life.  But nor am I a potted plant.  I have feelings, facts be damned.

Flying the Talk: Terrorist Attack on Austin IRS Building.

by: Ormond Otvos

Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 21:42:08 PM EST

Wow. I think it will generate some serious followers. A TeaPartier with real cojones.

O' Pen The Rad

by: MyDickBladesEyeSocket

Thu Feb 18, 2010 at 18:59:51 PM EST

In contrast to other kitchen knives, the cleaver has an especially strong edge meant to withstand repeated blows against meat and bone. The edge does not need to be particularly sharp, because the knife's design, like a hatchet or axe, relies on its weight to cut efficiently. In fact, a "razor-edge" on a cleaver can be counterproductive as it will rapidly degrade with use.

"There Is More Reason in Your Body Than in Your Best Wisdom"

by: 4kedtongue

Wed Feb 17, 2010 at 18:18:27 PM EST

I remember writing a letter to my parents after first arriving in San Francisco 19 years ago.  In describing my affection for my new neighborhood, North Beach, I recall writing about how I awoke to the smell of coffee beans roasting at the Graffeo Coffee Roasting Company every morning, which reminded me of Saturday mornings at my grandmother's house when I was a child -- the smell of burnt toast, and all the happy feelings of childhood I had associated with that memory.

I've briefly written about this before, but the incident -- the memory and its re-telling (now and when I first wrote about it to my parents) -- has taken on a greater significance to me.  It's unsettling to realize how many of my experiences have gone unexamined and simply accepted -- and relayed as anecdote, charming or otherwise.

I've come to many things late in life.  So be it...this is my "Madeleine Moment."

Who's a thugocracy, Saudi Arabia or Iran? (POLL!)

by: fairleft

Tue Feb 16, 2010 at 16:32:42 PM EST

Iran is a theocracy/democracy mix and not a democracy (which 80% of Iranians desire (p. 3, pdf)). However, at least the nation is not an openly nepotistic thugocracy like, say, Egypt, and at least it doesn't ban the leaders of its second biggest ethnic group from its national elections, as Iraq has just done. Also, at least Iran is not a military dependency unable to be an sovereign 'ocracy' in any important way, like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. And, at least it managed last June to elect the president that most of its people voted for, which even the U.S. is unable to do on a consistent basis. . . .

Depression and The American Smile

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Feb 16, 2010 at 11:50:25 AM EST

Is it due to the possibility that the United States is about to enter an economic free fall? And that once U.S. securities are no longer being purchased, the possibility of paying off the debt becomes impossible and the only specific solution to that is to inflate the dollar. Once the dollar is inflated and made worthless, it can be used to pay off debt in a very phoney way. It's the way it's been done for a long time.  

"Marines push 'The Breacher' against Taliban lines!!!"

by: fairleft

Fri Feb 12, 2010 at 14:02:52 PM EST

Marines push 'The Breacher' against Taliban lines
By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 11, 9:44 am ET

Here's another dumb headline:

Iran just wants simultaneous exchange

by: fairleft

Wed Feb 10, 2010 at 15:12:07 PM EST

The crux of the U.S.-Iran conflict is that Iran doesn't trust Russia and in particular France, that when it sends its low-enriched uranium there it will come back as 20% enriched or at all. So, Iran wants simultaneous exchange of low-enriched uranium for 20% enriched uranium, but the West refuses that without explanation. And so, here we are, on the propaganda path to bombing Iran. From Reuters:

Salehi [Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization] said Iran would stop producing 20 percent enriched uranium if it received reactor fuel from abroad instead.

But he made clear Tehran was not backing down on its demand for a simultaneous exchange, a condition unlikely to be accepted by the major powers involved in efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the long-running dispute.

Flutter Wings

by: donkeytale

Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 22:52:02 PM EST

I saw Maria again, first time in decades at our daughters wedding awhile back...she's remarried, serious, middle aged, matronly, together. Married to an old skkkool Southern gentleman as far from me as La. is from LA.

I was nervous about the meeting but Frau Tale took to her immediately, liked her right away. I stood off to the side with Maria's husband, awkwardly sharing an Italian beer or two mostly in silence, while our two wives kibbitzed happily.

="Pete never changed".

Frau Tale reported Maria's candid assessment later in the hotel room with the commanding view of the massive Jackie Robinson Apartment complex which they built after they tore down Ebbetts Field on the day Amerikkka died.

=She feels very, very sorry for you. How everythings turned out.

The Coyotes Are Coming!

by: da real fake noom

Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 18:39:48 PM EST

Eye heard that one coyote was seen sitting in on a philosophy class at the university boot that's joost a rumor. Other rumored sightings include coyotz humping on the top of the empire state building, eating a pastrami sandwich at the famed Carnegie deli, and performing a pantomime act on Columbus circle then passing a hat for donations. I pantomimed pooting a donation in the hat.

bonk!

No boot sear-uslee, I went cruising on my gas free, peace engendering bicycle today in C Park looking for one o these tasty critters, my troosty nine millimeter stowed away in my knapsack. hey man if eye spot one o these NYC faunas, taint nuttin stoppin me froom getting off a round. Why? A) they're good eatin, as good as a beagle on a bagle cept they're better on a Kaiser. Coyote on a Kaiser rules! B) I get the hide of this prairie wolf and make a davey crocker hat out oov it yo! Hell yes, coyote hats rock. I had won in Colorado 5 years ago. Kolorado Koyote ! jesus that hat was great, except never poot a coyote hat on a hat rack. It's back luck. They're best punted across the room.....

check it: http://www.furhatworld.com/coy...

troost me, eye look mooch better in it than that weak mofo, eye mean eye look Indian, so the shit will look natural on me unlike that poser. When I wore the hat you could see the animal spirit in my eyes.....